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Friday, August 20, 2010

Troubled Mind

"Yeah, it's funny how quickly you get used to abominable snow monsters being around and totally stop noticing them, isn't it?"

--Me, last night, in a dream.

And you wonder why I'm so strange.

(For the record, I was making conversation to calm down the girl who was freaking out because she thought the A.S.M. was trying to attack her, when really he was just trying to grab her newspaper because he's a fan of baseball and wanted to see whether or not Miami was winning.)

(No, I don't know what's wrong with my brain, either, and no, that isn't a scene from any of my books.)

(Well, then again, I haven't written the third book yet...)

(Also, the more I think about it, the more I realize this is probably going to be the equivalent of my own personal Twilight-genesis dream story. Someday, when my Abominable Snow Monster Baseball Lover story has made me millions of dollars, people will say, "And can you believe it all started because of a dream??")

19 comments:

Funny, I had a dream last night that our lovely and talented agent invited me to live with her and become her nanny. As you know, I'm not exactly a kid person. I'm sure her children (and yours) are supremely smart and adorable, but I must confess, this was a very terrifying dream for me.

I once dreamt I was in a 'final destination' situation. The people around me were dropping like flies and this psychic was there. She looked me in the eye and said 'Don't worry. You're good until 2033'. Yeah. NOthing like knowing your own death date. Pfft.

I sent my sister an email yesterday because I wasn't sure if I had gotten a fb message from her saying that she had fallen out of a tree and gotten all bruised up and ended up with Thrush. (I don't even know what Thrush is???) Turns out it's been years since she's been in a tree. She had been sick, but was all better now. Perhaps you have a big hairy old guy coming into your future, Kiersten...

Sharon--Thrush is a yeast-type infection that nursing infants get. It causes white sores in their mouths and along their gums, and can also be passed to the mother, where it inflames her [you know, that part the baby sucks on that I'm not going to type out here to as to avoid weird search terms pulling up my blog]. So, tell your subconscious that thrush is not really an issue at this point for your sister...

My dreams have become far more interesting since I started writing. When I was just a software designer, I'd have these crazy dreams where I had to follow the code on a mad dash to solve whatever problem. Now, it's nothing but turtles, werewolves and dragons, all the way down.

I just pre-ordered your book.:) I saw you are coming to Salt Lake City, so hopefully I can come support you and get you to sign my book! Love your blog. You are awesome, and are such a great example to us aspiring authors. :)

Why can't I ever have the good dreams? Dreams do work their way into our books though, don't they? I tend to write well based on my nightmares. Awesome fodder for waking up screaming. Poor Paul's hair is turning white under the duress. (Hugs)Indigo

I would totally turn my dreams into books, if they weren't all freaky. There was that WW2 dream where my house was flying and Adolf Hitler was using it as his mothership. Or when I got bit by a deadly poisonous spider and my family left me on the porch to die...guess I shouldn't! Anyways, I love your blog and your personality! This is my first comment on your blog, but I'm sure there'll be more! Thanks for being such an awesome writer :)

Wow that's some dream! Mostly, my dreams end somewhere in the middle when alarm/kids/pets wake me up. About a year and half ago, I had a dream that went all the way to the end... So, I wrote a book! Wish me luck--just sent it out for my first query today.My blog is michellesvann.blogspot.com if anyone wants to check it out! I'm not such a prolific blog writer as Kiersten, but I hope I'm at least not boring!

Kiersten White

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Hi! I give the most awkward hugs in the world. I also write books. I'd opt for one of my books over one of my hugs. Lucky for you, I write a lot of them.

The New York Times bestseller And I Darken, the first in an epic trilogy based on a gender-swapped Vlad the Impaler, is out now. It's filled with love daggers, which are like love triangles only much sharper and way more likely to kill you. Now I Rise, book two, releases June 2017.

My first novel for younger readers, Beanstalker and Other Hilarious Scarytales, is coming from Scholastic in August 2017. It's delightfully devious.